My artist is Shelly Corbett. She is from the U.S, Washington, Seattle. She went to the University of Washington and got a BFA degree. This is the top bachelor degree in visual arts. She stated by taking photos of women underwater. She did this for 20 years. Then she did photos of rock bands for a couple years but then stopped taking photos. A couple years ago she became captivated my legos and picked her camera back up. She has been taking lego photos for 2 years now. She worked for BrickCentral for a little bit but then co-founded StuckinPlastic.
Her photography is very focused on one thing. In a lot of her pictures she has a cool back ground but if she does it is always very blurred. Her backgrounds are meant to make her legos feel more realistic, not be heir own thing. For example, if she had a wild west photo she would get the grand canyon in the back ground to make it feel really wild westy but she would blur it a ton so you make out absolutely no detail. I honestly really like it but it makes it hard to re-create her photos because I can't go to the amazon to take a jungle photo or Arizona to make a cowboy photo. Because of this I recreated her photos of Starwars on Hoth because the only background I had access to was snow and ice.
I think the message in he photos is that you never really grow-up. From the limited ariticals about her, I have already found a couple times where she says something about us all being kids. This definatly comes from the fact that she is a lego photographer. She probably wants to share her love of legos with everyone. I'm honstely not that big of a lego person but a lot of my friends are.
He photos have not actually influenced my photos that much because I just saw her photos a couple weeks ago so nothing before that was changed. In the last week though I have changed my photos a little bit to match hers. I now try to put my emphasis somewhere other than the center of my photos. I try not to put the object in the center but put is somewhere that I can see infront or behind it. So far it looks pretty good.
My images are very different from the originals. Starting with the 1st one, there are already some huge differences. She got hers really high so that you can't see the ground behind it. We didn't have that much snow so mine had to be on the ground. The other difference is that I choose to have princess lay with hair and not a hood so it would be more obvious who it was. The last difference is that she took her picture at a super sunny place but it never got that sunny here.
My second image is deferent in a lot of the same ways. Once again she took hers somewhere high and mine was not high. The other difference was that she had a white boba feet and I don't have one. I don't even think they are a thing so she must have painted it. Instead I used a clone trooper and than put a radio wire on it's head. The last difference is that her's is walking straight at the camera but mine is walking at an angle. I prefer it this way.
The last photos are the most different. I really liked her photo so I wanted to re-create this one. Sadly, I couldn't edit in the shadow/reflection thing. I tried making it a shadow and I tried making it a reflection and I tried any other thing that I could think of but nothing looked even close to the actual picture. In the end I just kept mine plain. Also, she somehow found perfectly clear ice but ai couldn't find any. I ran all over my neighborhood but this was the best sheet of ice I could find.
I'm a little unclear on the direction for this last part so it might not be exactly what you were looking for. You say to tell a story with my photos but I assume not a literal story. I'm just going to interpret this as tell the story of how you took your photos. I would say the biggest part of taking all these photos was perspective. If I took them from to high up they would just look like legos. The whole point of lego photograms is to make them look more normal sized and there are only 2 ways to do this. One, you put them in a dessert or some where else with nothing near by to compare the legos size with. Or two, you angel the camera so that they look life sized. All three of my pictures where a mix of this. It was surprisingly hard to do. The other challenging part was depth. When you have nothing to compare the legos to, that creates the issue that there is nothing to create depth. Because of this, I would say that my photos are lacking depth so I should have found a better way to do that.
Her photography is very focused on one thing. In a lot of her pictures she has a cool back ground but if she does it is always very blurred. Her backgrounds are meant to make her legos feel more realistic, not be heir own thing. For example, if she had a wild west photo she would get the grand canyon in the back ground to make it feel really wild westy but she would blur it a ton so you make out absolutely no detail. I honestly really like it but it makes it hard to re-create her photos because I can't go to the amazon to take a jungle photo or Arizona to make a cowboy photo. Because of this I recreated her photos of Starwars on Hoth because the only background I had access to was snow and ice.
I think the message in he photos is that you never really grow-up. From the limited ariticals about her, I have already found a couple times where she says something about us all being kids. This definatly comes from the fact that she is a lego photographer. She probably wants to share her love of legos with everyone. I'm honstely not that big of a lego person but a lot of my friends are.
He photos have not actually influenced my photos that much because I just saw her photos a couple weeks ago so nothing before that was changed. In the last week though I have changed my photos a little bit to match hers. I now try to put my emphasis somewhere other than the center of my photos. I try not to put the object in the center but put is somewhere that I can see infront or behind it. So far it looks pretty good.
My images are very different from the originals. Starting with the 1st one, there are already some huge differences. She got hers really high so that you can't see the ground behind it. We didn't have that much snow so mine had to be on the ground. The other difference is that I choose to have princess lay with hair and not a hood so it would be more obvious who it was. The last difference is that she took her picture at a super sunny place but it never got that sunny here.
My second image is deferent in a lot of the same ways. Once again she took hers somewhere high and mine was not high. The other difference was that she had a white boba feet and I don't have one. I don't even think they are a thing so she must have painted it. Instead I used a clone trooper and than put a radio wire on it's head. The last difference is that her's is walking straight at the camera but mine is walking at an angle. I prefer it this way.
The last photos are the most different. I really liked her photo so I wanted to re-create this one. Sadly, I couldn't edit in the shadow/reflection thing. I tried making it a shadow and I tried making it a reflection and I tried any other thing that I could think of but nothing looked even close to the actual picture. In the end I just kept mine plain. Also, she somehow found perfectly clear ice but ai couldn't find any. I ran all over my neighborhood but this was the best sheet of ice I could find.
I'm a little unclear on the direction for this last part so it might not be exactly what you were looking for. You say to tell a story with my photos but I assume not a literal story. I'm just going to interpret this as tell the story of how you took your photos. I would say the biggest part of taking all these photos was perspective. If I took them from to high up they would just look like legos. The whole point of lego photograms is to make them look more normal sized and there are only 2 ways to do this. One, you put them in a dessert or some where else with nothing near by to compare the legos size with. Or two, you angel the camera so that they look life sized. All three of my pictures where a mix of this. It was surprisingly hard to do. The other challenging part was depth. When you have nothing to compare the legos to, that creates the issue that there is nothing to create depth. Because of this, I would say that my photos are lacking depth so I should have found a better way to do that.